Flat, or flatness, describes an object or condition that is very smooth or level.In Great Britain, Ireland and Australia, as well as in English spoken in Commonwealth countries such as India, a "flat" means an apartment.

MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic name MacDhòmhnaill, which in modern Gaelic is approximated as McConnell. It is a patronym where Mac means "son" and Dhòmhnaill means "of Dòmhnall". The personal name Dòmhnall is composed of the elements domno "world" and val "might", "rule". According to Alex Woolf, the Gaelic personal name is probably a borrowing from the BritishDyfnwal.

In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings. Despite its terminology, building implosion also includes the controlled demolition of other structures, such as , , , and .

Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...is of a more complicated kind than the chemistry of the vegetable; and we obtain from animal substances comp..

This book is a collation of the descendents of John Harman, born in 1824 Aldro, Yorkshire, England. John Harman married Esther Elletson 13 December 1845 Sculcoates, Hull, England and with their family they migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1853 and then ..

It features a complete presentation of specific DirectDraw-based solutions, computer graphics algorithms, and a primer on computer graphics theory, which is also helpful for game developers. The book also teaches how to control every aspect of Windows bitm..

Bush v. Gore, , is the United States Supreme Court decision that effectively resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election. Three days earlier, the Court had preliminarily halted a recount that was occurring. Eight days earlier, the Court